About

Product designer, eleven years in, most of it fintech. Business banking, payments, trading and the design systems underneath them.

I work both ways. Research, Figma and the rest of the traditional craft when that is what a project needs. Designing in code when the result should sit closer to what actually ships, with AI inside the workflow rather than beside it. Most work wants some of each.

Constraints are the part I find interesting. Users, systems and priorities all move. Anything that cannot absorb that gets rebuilt within a year. I would rather ship something that lasts than something that photographs well.

Experience

  • Confidential FinTech Product Design LeadCurrent
  • Royal Academy of Arts Senior Product DesignerCurrent
  • Apollo FounderCurrent
  • CyScan Product Design Lead2025–26
  • Paysafe Senior Product Designer2024–25
  • Amina Bank Senior Product Designer2024
  • Fathom Lead Product Designer2022–23
  • 542 Digital Senior Product Designer2022
  • Allica Bank Senior Product Designer2022
  • Zilch Senior Product Designer2021–22
  • Curve Product Designer2020–21
  • Monese Product Designer2019–20
  • Sky Product Designer2018–19
  • FireItOver Product Designer2018
  • Smoor Co-Founder / Product Designer2016–18
  • SportQuake Lead Designer2015–16

Skills

Research and strategy

  • UX research
  • Interviews and usability testing
  • Problem framing
  • Product strategy
  • Product discovery

Design engineering

  • Designing in code
  • Design systems in code
  • Prototyping in code
  • Design tokens through to production
  • AI-native workflows

Experience design

  • User flows and journeys
  • Wireframing and prototyping
  • Information architecture
  • Interaction design
  • Content structure

Visual and systems craft

  • Interface design
  • Design systems
  • Design tokens
  • Component libraries
  • Accessibility to WCAG 2.2 AA

Collaboration and leadership

  • Stakeholder communication
  • Working alongside engineers
  • Workshop facilitation
  • Design leadership
  • Mentoring designers

Stack

  • Figma
  • Paper
  • Miro
  • Cursor
  • VS Code
  • GitHub
  • Claude Code
  • ChatGPT
  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • Notion

Get in touch

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